How to format your references using the Frontiers in Tumor Immunity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Frontiers in Tumor Immunity. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Hoag, H. (2003). Tougher rules aim to prevent gene flow into crops. Nature 422, 103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Norell, M. A., and Clarke, J. A. (2001). Fossil that fills a critical gap in avian evolution. Nature 409, 181–184.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, Y. K., Lee, H., and Park, J. Y. (2014). Tandem-structured, hot electron based photovoltaic cell with double Schottky barriers. Sci. Rep. 4, 4580.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ebert, D., Haag, C., Kirkpatrick, M., Riek, M., Hottinger, J. W., and Pajunen, V. I. (2002). A selective advantage to immigrant genes in a Daphnia metapopulation. Science 295, 485–488.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Stoute, K. (2014). Help, I’m Rich! Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Benson, R. C. (2016). Site Characterization in Karst and Pseudokarst Terraines: Practical Strategies and Technology for Practicing Engineers, Hydrologists and Geologists., 1st ed. 2016, ed. L. B. Yuhr. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Greenberg, J. A. (2006). “International Legal Developments Protecting the Autonomy Rights of Sexual Minorities: Who Should Determine the Appropriate Treatment for an Intersex Infant?,” in Ethics and Intersex, ed. S. E. Sytsma (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands), 87–101.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Frontiers in Tumor Immunity.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016). Nearly 78 Percent Of All Childhood Diarrhea Infections Caused By Just Six Pathogens. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/nearly-78-percent-of-all-childhood-diarrhea-infections-caused-by-just-six-pathogens/ (Accessed October 30, 2018).

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office (1993). Mexican Trucking Wages. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Ly, L. (2017). Performance Appraisal in a Family Business. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Walsh, M. W. (2016). Life on the Precipice in Puerto Rico. New York Times, BU1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Norell and Clarke, 2001; Hoag, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Norell and Clarke, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Ebert et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Frontiers in Tumor Immunity
Abbreviation	Front. Immunol.
ISSN (online)	1664-3224
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